Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide...
Stalin, who will be 70 next month, is methodically husbanding his strength and Smith sees no reason why he should not continue in power for "a number of years." He talked to Stalin at length four times. "Met face to face, Stalin is not by any means the unattractive personality that some writers have depicted . . . While not tall, he is square and erect, giving the impression of great strength . . . [His] fine dark eyes . . . did not impress me either as 'gentle,' as one observer thought, or 'cold as steel,' as others have remarked, but they are alert...
Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face...
...then, at the age of 32, my education began in earnest." The Order of Goods. The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself. Confronted by vast problems and vaster confusions which burgeoned after World War II, the U.S. lived face to face with a gnawing question: How can Western civilization, with all its mastery of production, science and the material world, keep from coming apart at the seams...
...Bellboys, after a disappointing season, face Pierson without the services of quarterback Bob Woodruff, a fine passer and clever ball handler, who broke his rib in Monday's Kirkland game. Lowell needn't mourn too much, however, because the Pierson Slaves' only claim to fame is five straight losses, and ten injuries in their first game